We expect to have our first products available early January 2011.

The first product will be a board based on the Austria Micro Systems AS5040/5045. The board will be small and will include mounting holes, can be used with the sensor top or bottom facing the magnet.  This small rotary encoder board will feature:

• Contactless high resolution rotational position encoding over a full turn of 360 degrees
• Two digital 10bit absolute outputs(AS5040):

1. – Serial interface and
2. – Pulse width modulated (PWM) output

• Three incremental output modes:

1. – Quadrature A/B and Index output signal
2. – Step / Direction and Index output signal
3. – 3-phase commutation for brushless DC motors
4. – (AS5040) 10, 9, 8 or 7 bit user programmable resolution

• User programmable zero / index position
• Failure detection mode for magnet placement monitoring and loss of power supply
• Rotational speeds up to 30,000 rpm
• Push button functionality detects movementof magnet in Z-axis
• Serial read-out of multiple interconnected AS5040 devices using Daisy Chain mode

The second product series will be focused on energy harvesting.

Products targeted:

• One of the smallest Joule Thief boards ever, measuring an mere 0.25″x0.25″ .
• A thru-hole PCB Joule Thief kit, with user selectable parts for experimenting with different values
• An energy harvester that uses a 0.5V solar cell and regulates at user selected outputs ranging from 1.8VDC to 12VDC

If any of these products interest you please let us know , drop us a line at sales@madscientisthut.com